QNL Manuscript HC.MS.00247: A High-Resolution Digital Copy

A 799.3 MB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00247 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'كتاب مختصر المشايخ في البطون الكبيرة' (The Book of the Summary of the Sheikhs on Large Tribes). The dataset was last updated on June 3, 2026, and is provided under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution images.
• Digital preservation and archival study of manuscript structure and content.
• Linguistic and historical analysis of the text 'The Book of the Summary of the Sheikhs on Large Tribes'.
• Comparative analysis of manuscript features within the QNL Heritage Collection.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed examination.
• Provided under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library's Heritage Collection.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The specific content, structure, and row count of the data within the ZIP file are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (Manuscript HC.MS.00247).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 09:47:16; freshness should be verified.